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Disclaimer popups before sending an email or submitting a comment using...
Several of our clients requested that we add popup disclaimers before someone sends an email to the site admin or before they submit a comment. Here’s a screenshot of what we’re going to do: Case 1:...
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Data portability and data serialization in WordPress
Over at illuminea, we’ve been migrating WordPress sites for years. So we thought we’d seen it all when it came to WordPress migration. And yet, recently we encountered an issue that we had never dealt...
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How to list subpages with a title and excerpt in WordPress
We developed a site that has really rich subpages (child pages) but the parent page is mostly a blank placeholder that directs people to the subpages. Instead of merely leaving a blank parent page, we...
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How to fix apostrophes turning into slashes in WordPress
We build our sites with a custom theme options panel in the Dashboard so that clients can manage as much of their site on their own as possible. All seemed fine and dandy until the client threw in an...
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Data Serialization, WordPress, and my new best friend
Recently, Miriam wrote about Data Serialization and what a pain in the tuchus it can be to migrate a site that has serialized links in the database. So, today, when I migrated one of our client’s sites...
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5 Useful Tips for Gravity Forms
We are huge fans of Gravity Forms (so obviously we’re an affiliate), a premium WordPress plugin for creating forms, because nerdily enough, it actually makes creating forms kinda fun. But most...
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LTR alignment icon added to Hebrew and Arabic WordPress in version 3.4
When WordPress 3.4 was released a few weeks ago, many posts were written reviewing the great new features that the release included, like embeddable tweets, linkable photo captions, and theme options....
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Managing multiple WordPress sites: A review of ManageWP, WPRemote and...
Over at illuminea.com, we manage over many WordPress websites as part of our WordPress hosting and maintenance service. All of these sites need version upgrades, plugin upgrades, and the rare theme...
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Jetpack WordPress plugin – The new comments and image carousel features...
WordPress.com has limited flexibility and functionality in many ways. For example, you can’t add plugins, and you have to sign up to a paid upgrade in order to use ads. Even so, many of us who use and...
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HOWTO: Add a custom style to any WordPress widget with a plugin
The Problem On a WordPress site that we recently built, there were several text widgets in use – one for About Us, one for a Facebook Social Plugin, and one for a newsletter signup form. The problem...
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How to list WordPress Users (Editors and Authors) by role and then...
For one of our clients, we needed to list all the users on the site, first by role, and then within that role, alphabetized by last name. Each user needed to display the author’s name (First Name, Last...
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Hack: How to use Jetpack’s ShareDaddy plugin without connecting to WordPress.com
ShareDaddy was a great social sharing plugin. And then it was integrated into Auttomatic’s Jetpack which required connecting our clients’ sites to a WordPress.com account which was majorly awkward…...
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GenerateWP: Code on the go with reliable code for WordPress Custom Post...
If you’re adventurous WordPress developers like we are at illuminea, then you’re probably a fan of shortcuts. I’m talking about shortcuts that help you save up on development time without compromising...
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Join us at WordCamp Jerusalem 2013: the official WordPress conference in Israel!
I know it’s been used before, but I find it hilarious. I love bad jokes. Okay, here goes: How many WordPress developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Answer: None! There’s a plugin for that....
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How Akismet prevented my Mom from leaving her first WordPress comment, and...
Last week our agency launched a shiny new custom site for an academic think tank. I showed my mom the new site. “It’s so nice Miriam!” said my ever-objective Mom. She dutifully scrolled up and down the...
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Yom Huledet Sameach WordPress! Happy birthday to our fave CMS, with love from...
Last night, like 718 other cities around the world, the WordPress community in Jerusalem got together to celebrate 10 years of our favorite CMS. Gathering around alcoholic beverages, every one got a...
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Twitter talk: Should WordCamps have business sessions?
A few days ago a loooong twitter conversation took place regarding whether having sessions about business is appropriate for WordCamps. It’s hard to understand what everyone’s exact intentions are in...
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Do scandalous images sell more WordPress themes?
Dear WordPress theme developers, At illuminea, we do both custom WordPress sites and template-based WordPress sites, depending on the client’s budget. Please be aware that I send your themes/templates...
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WordPress multisite redirect loop for WWW site
We (y’know, over at illuminea) have a client’s site that is using WWW in their domain. Let’s say that domain is, hmm… www.domain.com. And their site is multisite, so that they can easily manage an...
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Reference: code snippet for .htaccess redirect to www or non-www version
When creating any site, it is best practice to make sure that all pages on a site either render only for the www version (i.e. www.domain.com) or the non-www version (domain.com). In order to do this,...
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